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Principle v. Tactics. This was stirring stuff, bui whether it would stir any vast number of Frenchmen up that hard but beautiful road was still to be seen. After the first wave of gratitude at a firm hand. French politicians were already beginning to like the thought of the politics that would be resumed when De Gaulle relinquishes his temporary mandate. On the far left, tubby Communist Boss Jacques busily trying party as the voice of "the republican masses," opened a drive for a popular front to defeat De Gaulle's proposed constitutional reforms. (After a long, nervous...
...hedge against inflation will be pegged to the market value of the gold napoleon (last week 3.600 francs). While De Gaulle appealed to patriotism in launching the loan. Pinay remembered the practical side. In the hope of attracting urgently needed foreign exchange, Pinay was even prepared to let Frenchmen buy the bond with previously undeclared - and hence illegal - foreign currency holdings. "That law," explained Pinay blandly, "has never been enforced anyway." De Gaulle himself was hard at work on constitutional reform. Some details gradually leaked out. Upon a nation with an ingrained distrust of strong government, the general hoped...
Which Emperor? The beautiful road that De Gaulle was mapping out might yet prove to be one that Frenchmen are too divided or too self-indulgent to follow. Perhaps, in the end, the politicians would be justified in their belief that the crucial question was not whether De Gaulle would succeed but who would succeed...
...Frenchmen are drinking themselves to death at a faster rate than ever. Dr. Guy Godlewski, a Paris hormone specialist, told the French Academy of Medicine last week that after wartime's austerity, the number of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver quadrupled from 1947 to 1950, tripled again by 1956. The peak total that year: 20,279 deaths from alcoholism, 14-176 of them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis...
...hour of peril for our country and the Republic, I have turned to the most illustrious of all Frenchmen, to the man who, during the darkest years of our history, was our leader in the reconquest of liberty and who, having secured national unanimity around himself, refused dictatorship in order to establish the Republic . . . I am asking General de Gaulle to confer with the Chief of State and to examine with him what, within the bounds of republican legality, is immediately required for a government of national safety, and what can be done within a reasonable period of time thereafter...